LEEDS PLAYHOUSE 3-23 JULY
LEEDS SUMMER GROUP SHOW
SHOWCASING TALENT FROM LEEDS AND BEYOND
This year marks the tenth anniversary of the Leeds Summer Group Show, an open-call exhibition founded by Courtney Spencer in 2015 to celebrate artists working across the UK. What began as a small independent exhibition has grown into a much-anticipated annual showcase, providing a platform for emerging and established artists alike.
We’re delighted to return to Leeds Playhouse, a vibrant cultural venue in the heart of the city. With its commitment to creativity, accessibility and community, it provides the perfect setting for this diverse exhibition.
For the 2025 show, 101 artists submitted over 350 works for consideration. From these, the panel selected 70 pieces by 55 artists. The final selection spans a broad range of disciplines, themes and approaches, reflecting the richness of contemporary visual art being made today.
Many of the works are available to purchase, offering a chance to support artists directly and begin or grow your collection. For enquiries, please visit www.courtspencer.com and use the contact form.
Selection panel:
Layla Bloom is Interim Associate Director of Cultural Collections and Curatorial Practice at the University of Leeds Libraries. She leads the Cultural Collections and Galleries team and has curated the University Art Collection since 2010. Layla was previously Curator of Fine Art at Leeds Art Gallery.
Hondartza Fraga (@hondartza.fraga) is a Spanish artist based in Leeds whose practice includes drawing, video, photography and animation. She explores how scientific ideas and imagery shape our understanding of the world. Her work has been shown across the UK and Europe and is represented by Espacio Alexandra in Spain and The Art Court in the UK.
Courtney Spencer (@court_spencer) is an Australian artist and curator based in Yorkshire. She founded and curates the Leeds Summer Group Show. In 2022 she established The Art Court to support artists and collectors across the North. She curates exhibitions that enhance both space and audience experience. She has worked with the National Trust, British Library, Leeds Museums & Galleries, Leeds Playhouse, Rushbond and Eye Room, among others.
EXHIBITING ARTISTS
BRIAN ADAMS
ELLIE ANDREWS
RICHARD BAKER
JENNY BEARD
CLARE BOOKER
ZOE BOSWELL
SUSAN BRADLEY
KAREN BRITCLIFFE
KYLE BROWN
ANDY CAHILL
CHRISTOPHER CAMPBELL
CHRISTINE CHESELDINE
WAI-YI CHUNG
JO CLEMENTS
JOSS COLE
VIRGINIA CROMPTON
FINN DOBSON
FILIPPA DOBSON
CHRIS EASTHAM
KATE EVANS
MATTHEW EYLES
KATHRYN FOX
JOSEPH GODDARD
CAROLE GRIFFITHS
BREN HEAD
MARIELLE HEHIR
ALEXANDER HOLT
TIM HOUGHTON
TOMY JENKINS
EDD M JONES
PING KELLY
SIMON LEWIS
PENNIE LORDAN
ZOE MAXWELL
ELEANOR MULHEARN
KATE O’NEILL
REBECCA O’HOOLEY
CASSY OLIPHANT
LISA POWER
LAURENCE PUSEY
DAVID QUESTA
MURNIAH SKINNER
BEN SNOWDEN
DONGLIN SONG
ROBIN STONES
JAMIE STEWARD
BRISBANE TAYLOR
SIMON TAYLOR
MAUREEN UZOH
VALERIE WARTELLE
JANE WOOD
BRIAN ADAMS
The nature of the photographic image has long sustained Brian Adams’ interest in the medium. His pictures often question its fundamental characteristics, for example by using abstraction to challenge the sense of veracity. Does a photograph truly represent the world? After many years working in black and white darkrooms, he now finds muted colour the most effective approach, almost monochromatic.
www.brianadamsphotography.com
Abstract Shape (2023)
Photograph
65cm x 55cm
£250 (framed)
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ELLIE ANDREWS
Ellie works primarily in charcoal and pencil, creating figurative drawings from life ranging from size A2 to A0 and beyond. Her work centres on capturing people including life models, clothed sitters, and commissioned portraits. Drawn to working on a large scale, Ellie is less concerned with replicating reality and more interested in drawing the place between what’s real and what’s imagined or perceived to be real. Playing with proportion and mark making allows her to create and present narratives in a drawing. Ellie’s drawings of faces sit between a realistic representation and a character study of the person. The person is recognisable and yet it is not a true likeness - there is something otherworldly about them.
www.ellieandrewsart.com @ellieandrewsart
Holly (2024)
Charcoal on Cartridge Paper
73cm x 103cm
£250
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RICHARD BAKER
Richard Baker is based in Leeds, UK. He has exhibited widely, including at museums in China, The San Francisco Arts Institute, The National Museum of Poland, the Mall Galleries, London, The Walker Gallery, Liverpool and the Royal Academy of Arts, London.
He won the Discerning Eye Prize for the North of England (2024), the Wells Art Contemporary Patron’s Prize, (2020) and the The Hix Award, 2019. He was a selected exhibitor in the John Moores Painting Prize exhibition (2018). His work is included in the Priseman-Seabrook collection of 21st Century British painting and is held in collections worldwide.
@richardbakerpainting
Orange Triangle Oil on panel
20cm x 15cm
2025
£850
Sledge Oil on panel
15cm x 20cm
2025
£850
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JENNY BEARD
Jenny Beard is an artist working within contemporary abstract painting, focusing on the dialogue between digital aesthetics and traditional methods, as well as the contemplation of time and interaction. Her process involves automatic drawing, with attention to weight and balance, alongside meticulous rendering. While the visual language is heavily influenced by digital perfection, human error and the trace of her hand are embraced.
In addition to exploring the ‘reverse entropy’ of a brushstroke on the canvas, Jenny uses text in a prescriptive way. These often take the form of phrases or ramblings, usually protests or reflections, with an undertone of humour and self-deprecation. Although the words are deliberate, the focus remains on the act of selfexpression. Through this process, Jenny seeks to come to terms with her own reserved traits and experiences as a working-class woman in the arts.
@jenny.beard
Feeling Machine (#587861, #538577) (2025)
Emulsion on canvas
96cm x 66cm
£700
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CLARE BOOKER
Clare Booker is a painter, experimental filmmaker and human geographer, exploring how spatial experience can be visually represented. She is trained in Fine Art Painting, Creative Technology and recently completed a PhD in Human Geography, which focused on the space and place of airports. She has exhibited her work widely, both nationally and internationally. Alongside her art practice Clare teaches Art & Design at Leeds City College.
Her art practice and research explore how the methods of painting, collage and digital media can represent the spatial collisions and transitions experienced whilst occupying and navigating through public spaces, such as airports, cities and stadiums, both actual and virtual. Her work continuously experiments with the relationship between the physical surface of paint, and the surface of digital image and film. These latest paintings explore the urban environment via the mediated lens of Google Earth and Street View.
www.clarebooker.com @clarebookerartist
Munich (MUC) (2025)
Oil on canvas panel
30cm x 30cm
£550
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ZOE BOSWELL
Zoe Boswell is a Leeds based artist working with contemporary embroidery as a fine art form. Her work aims to transform the mundane into works of art, employing vintage photographs, postcards, and everyday items. Zoe’s work directly disrupts the reality her alternative canvases present and creates a new image, not through the use of a pen or paintbrush, but by piercing through the material with needle and thread. By altering the materiality of the items, this creates interesting challenges and a unique experience, both for the artist and for the viewer.
likeartmaybe.etsy.com @somethinglikeartmaybe
204, 208, 209 (2023)
Hand embroidery on vintage photographs
33.5cm x 16cm
£165 (framed)
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SUSAN BRADLEY
Susan works with paper, creating hand-cut collages and printmaking using letterpress, linocut and monoprint techniques. Her inspiration is diverse and includes song lyrics, wild swimming, protest art, womanhood, folklore and contemporary culture.
An award winning creative director and designer, Susan currently works with analogue techniques creating artworks that continue her distinctive graphic style yet also celebrate the imperfections of the handmade.
Susan has worked with leading galleries, museums and architects on small scale products and large installations. Commissions include Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Baltic Gallery, National Maritime Museum, DKNY, Christian Louboutin and Harvey Nichols, with work being sold at the V&A, National Gallery and Liberty London.
www.susanbradley.co.uk @susanbradleydesign
Coffee & Croissant (2024)
Linocut print
42cm x 29cm
£45 (framed)
Together (2024)
Linocut print
42cm x 29cm
£45 (framed)
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KAREN BRITCLIFFE
Karen Britcliffe is a sculptor whose practice explores the spaces that people occupy and are displaced from, investigating the notion of ‘home’ and the structures that contain us, comfort us and identify us. She creates works in miniature that fit into the palm of your hand, there is a playfulness to them on first viewing but with time a darker side emerges.
Miniatures are seductive objects that conjure childhood memories of dolls houses and domesticity, voyeurism and control, where the fourth wall is removed, the hidden activity within is exposed, and where time passes differently as if viewing arrested life.
karenbritcliffe.squarespace.com @karenbritcliffemodelmaker
Admiral N (2021)
Mixed media
29cm x 13cm x 9cm
£500
Lady H (2021)
Mixed media
29cm x 13cm x 9cm
£500
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KYLE BROWN
Kyle Nathan brown is an artist based in Northwest England. Their aim is to create something of an expression rather than trying to portray any definitive message; allowing any notions, theories, and intentions to fall away once the artwork is complete. In this way, they hope to create a conversation between the piece and the viewer, a back and forth that permits a freedom to the artwork and those viewing it. There may or may not be some great meaning behind a piece, but if there is then it is up to the viewer to discover or invent.
www.kylenathanbrownart.com
Single-Minded Monkey Child (2023)
Oil on canvas
44.3cm x 62.7cm
£500
Musk-Rat Capital (2024) Oil on canvas
45cm x 32.5cm
£200
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ANDY CAHILL
Andy Cahill’s works include mixed media, watercolour, pen & print making. He selects elements from the environment as a starting point (movement, perspectives, light, shade, space) and develops a theme. He paints using his instincts, his empathy with the subject and develops a relationship with the paint medium.
There is often a mythical/mystical folkloric feel to his work.
@andycahill5317
Looking (2025)
Watercolour
43cm x 60cm
£450
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CHRISTOPHER CAMPBELL
Christopher Campbell is an artist who studied at Leeds Metropolitan University. He is currently obsessed with painting plastic bags. Christopher has exhibited in the UK and USA. Likes pina coladas and walks in the rain!
www.campbellpainter.co.uk @christophercampbell1975
The Witch (2021) Oil on canvas
40cm x 55cm
£1,250
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CHRISTINE CHESELDINE
Christine is an artist based in Leeds, West Yorkshire. This is the place she was born and lives. As a mature student she studied at Leeds Arts University gaining a B.A. in Fine Art in 2017.
She is a painter, using oils, and is currently experimenting with gold leaf and mixed media. Christine has a love for colour which shows through in her earlier printing work. She takes her inspiration from interior and fine art magazines.
@christinecheseldinefineart
Deep in the Forest (2017)
Collagraph
70cm x 80cm (framed)
£400
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WAI-YI CHUNG
Wai Yi Chung was born and raised in Hong Kong and is now based in London. She graduated from the Chinese University of Hong Kong with a Bachelor of Social Science (Hons) in Journalism and Communication in 2020. In 2023, she completed an MA in Fine Art from the University for the Creative Arts in the UK with distinction and has exhibited in multiple group shows across the UK.
Wai Yi’s practice is inspired by the fusion Hong Kong culture and the entangled past between the two places, Britain and Hong Kong. Spanning across drawings, paintings, etchings etc. her works are often puzzles of surreal memories and mysterious spaces, inviting her audience to explore a unique world of perception and imagination.
@waiyi.chung.art
Dream about… going back to school but it was a labyrinth (2024) Etching, aquatint, dry-point
41cm × 36cm (framed)
£190
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JO CLEMENTS
Jo Clements’ current artistic practice is focussed on notions of connectivity, neural networks and artificial intelligence and the ways in which we attach hierarchical values onto different intelligences which are often linked to biases around gender, class and race.
She frequently uses images of the brain as a metaphor to explore these themes. The friction between the hand made and the mechanised or artificial is often present in her work. She is the host of the Grateful Web podcast, and supports artists through coaching and mentoring for numerous galleries and individual artists across the UK and Ireland.
@jo_clements
Mother F. Ship (2025)
Ink drawing over collaged postcards
76cm x 63cm
£900
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JOSS COLE
Joss Cole is a painter interested in the threshold between literature and visual art. His work engages with visual and verbal puns, historical references, landscape and nature to stretch the ways in which poetry can be considered a key discourse in painting. He received his MA from Wimbledon College of Art, University Arts London in 2011. He runs, Cole’s Gallery a small independent art gallery in Leeds Corn Exchange currently moving locations to the shambles in the city of York.
www.josscole.co.uk @josscole23
What’s Outside the Window (2024)
Watercolour on paper
60cm x 80cm
£300 (framed)
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VIRGINIA CROMPTON
Virginia Crompton paints from life inside all four dimensions, as it is experienced. She paints in the moment and pursues a spontaneous, direct, practice as engaged with time as space, place and people.
She often pictures scenes when nothing seems to be happening, while outside the picture everything is happening. The tension between content and context is expressed in the struggle with colour, clashing grounds disrupting the image while also giving it cohesion. Crompton is in conversation with her subjects which always tell a story, at times easy to access, sometimes concealed within the painting, always present.
@sketchyvirginia
Relax, While You Can (2025)
Acrylic on stone paper
28cm x 36cm (framed)
£350
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FINN DOBSON
Finn Dobson is a self-taught poet and fibre artist based in Leeds. They enjoy using a mixture of methods and mediums including repurposed, found and ‘waste’ materials, often drawing from crip aesthetics. Their work addresses themes of queer embodiment, marginalisation and solidarity, whilst noticing the nuances and interconnectedness of experiences. Finn is interested in the stories we tell about ourselves and the world around us, and what this reflects about our place within wider (eco)systems.
@raw_edges_
Mantra for Unmasking (2024)
Intarsia Crochet
70cm x 34cm
£375
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FILIPPA DOBSON
Filippa Dobson is a multi-disciplinary artist working at the intersection of art with archaeology. She makes ritual spaces into public contemporary art through performance, photography, sound, and video.
Photographs submitted are from a series of artworks, High Pasture Cave, Isle of Skye, a prehistoric burial site. The excavation director and collaborator suggests the place name Kilbride, (Cell of Bride) refers to the Celtic goddess Bríd. The woman in the cave was buried under tons of rubble (circa 74 ACE), a deliberate erasure and potential crime scene. Photographs are silent testament to voices silenced for 2000 years and document a past environment threatened by climate change.
@filippaartist2003/
The Woman in the Cave (5) (2022)
Digital Photograph ‘Raw’
100cm x 82 cm
£2,000
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CHRIS EASTHAM
Chris Eastham is a figurative painter and printmaker from Leeds, UK, who began her art education at Jacob Kramer College (now Leeds Arts University) with distinction, followed by Fine Art studies at Trent University and a PGCE in Art and Design from Reading University. After years of teaching art in high schools, she established her studio at Patrick Studios, supported by East Street Arts, in 2017.
With decades of creative experience, she now paints full time, specialising in figurative work that often blends memory and identity with nostalgic muted tones.
www.chrisieastham.co.uk @chrisieastham
Painting in Park Square (2025) Oil on canvas
105cm x 105cm (framed)
£1,750
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KATE EVANS
Kate Evans works on plywood (mainly out of skips), cutting out shapes with a fretsaw, and then painting them with acrylic, before finally composing them into pictures. Her main subjects are still-life, particularly food, and nature. She has no formal art training, and evolved the technique herself. She lives in Leeds and has exhibited in various northern venues, and in Sussex and Kent.
Facebook: Kate Evans painted fretwork
Peeling apples (2024)
Acrylic on plywood
30cm x 30cm
£180 (mounted)
Radishes (2024)
Acrylic on plywood
31cm x 36 cm
£150 (framed)
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MATTHEW EYLES
Matthew Eyles is a self-taught artist. A retired architect, during the 2020 lockdown Matthew was inspired to return to his love of painting, inspired by the landscapes of the Yorkshire Dales where he lives and works. Matthew is fascinated by the changing nature of the landscape and how it is affected by the seasons, the light and the weather conditions. He is intrigued by the signs of human intervention, dry stone walls, barns and even road signs, and electricity lines. Matthew works mainly in Acrylic Ink and Watercolour, using pencil sketching to inform his paintings.
@mattheweyles.art
Early Morning – Feeding the Chickens at Fell View (2025)
Acrylic Ink
58cm x 45.5cm
£950
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KATHRYN FOX
Kathryn Fox (UK, fine art trained), screen printer, is an unapologetic drifter and a dreamer.
The work presented here explores our relationship with the land: what roots us in a place, if only for a brief time, the marks we leave and the experiences we absorb.
Her prints build on a mix of processes used in preparation, including photography, collage and digital work, the final print pulling together these processes in a unifying whole. Her approach is above all playful, celebrating improvisation and placing equal value on intellectual and sensory experience. www.kathrynfox.uk
@kathryn_fox_studio
Brimham Rocks (an arrangement of dots on paper) (2022)
67cm x 54cm
£300 (framed)
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JOSEPH GODDARD
Joseph Goddard is a Leeds based artist working across sculpture, photography and collage. His work explores concepts taken from the Situationist International and psychogeography; initiating encounters to highlight junctures between the local environment and the role of modernism as a persisting multifaceted force.
As decades of deindustrialisation continue to shape the headlines and contours of community identity in Yorkshire, Goddard’s practice maps the broader urban tectonics of change since WWII. His works posits postindustrial landscapes and social architectural schemes as fossils of shifting ideologies, aesthetics and forms and an important counterpart to the legacies of Modern Art.
josephgoddardartist.com @josephgoddard
Public Assemblage No.5, Leeds City Square, Leeds (2025)
Photography on copy paper
30cm x 43cm (framed)
£130
Public Assemblage No.3, Woodhouse Moor, Leeds (2025)
Photography on copy paper
30cm x 43cm (framed)
£130
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CAROLE GRIFFITHS
Carole Griffiths is a UK-based sculptor and educator with over 30 years of experience. She studied sculpture at Wimbledon School of Art and earned an MA from Leeds Metropolitan University. Her work, often rooted in domestic objects like kitchen utensils, explores themes of intimacy, identity, and memory. Her sculptures and drawings invite viewers to engage with the tactile and emotional dimensions of everyday items, transforming them into poetic reflections on domestic life.
She has recently completed a practice-led PhD in Visual Arts at Coventry University, focusing on “Sculptural Reconfigurations of the Kitchen Utensil: A Poetic Chaos of Domesticity.”
www.carolegriffiths.co.uk @griffsculpt
Portable Paradigms 2 (2024)
Charcoal and shellac
35cm x 35cm
£300 (framed)
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BREN HEAD
Bren Head’s portraits tread the line somewhere between figurative and abstract and are rarely about capturing an accurate likeness. Never intending to flatter, her portraits are not blemish free. Mixed media, lines, colours, tones and shadows are exaggerated to reflect this. The subjects are almost always solitary often establishing contact with the viewer through a direct gaze. Bren has shown work widely in galleries throughout the UK.
www.brenheadartist.co.uk @brenheadartist
Where did you come from? (2024)
Mixed media
30cm x 28cm
£500
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MARIELLE HEHIR
Marielle has recently completed a practice-led PhD at the University of Leeds, fully funded by WRoCAH. She is currently living and working from her narrowboat while travelling around the waterways of England and Wales.
She has exhibited widely and participated in several international artist residency programmes. Marielle is currently artist in residence with UCLan. Recent exhibitions include On Shaky Ground: Land, Paint and Change (2023, Leeds) and Genius Loci: Painting the Spirit of Place (2022, London). She has also been shortlisted for The John Ruskin Prize (2017, Sheffield) and the Contemporary British Painting Prize (2016, London).
www.mariellehehir.com @mariellehehir
Low Levels (2025)
Reclaimed stoneware clay, various glazes
15cm x 15cm x 3cm
£200
Thing of Shadows (2023)
Black clay, various glazes
20cm x 20cm x 2 cm
£230
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ALEXANDER HOLT
Alexander Holt is an illustrator who creates characters inspired by animated media; every character has their own backstory, which he shares with peers in the Pyramid studio. A prolific sketcher since childhood; he utilises his practice to regulate and express himself.
Alexander has spent many years developing an instantly recognisable individual style. He is currently supported 11 hours a week by Pyramid, an inclusive arts collective which supports learning disabled and/or autistic artists.
Sea Monster Pirate Ship (2024)
Acrylic on canvas
90cm x 120cm
NFS
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TIM HOUGHTON
Tim Houghton, born and living near Wakefield, built a successful 40-year career in graphic design and print before returning to his artistic roots with a fresh perspective. His practice now centres on detailed oil paintings, primarily on wood and canvas, inspired by nature and countryside walks.
Wildlife and still life subjects take shape in the tranquillity of his home studio. Influenced by the Old Masters yet reimagined through a modern realist lens, Tim finds joy in capturing intricate textures from the delicate feathers of a bird to the subtle interplay of natural light on everyday objects.
@timsartsite
Prepping Garlic (2024)
Oil paint
30cm x 40cm
£780
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TOMY JENKINS
Growing up in an ex-mining town in Yorkshire, Tomy experienced a people with a strong sense of community and a clinging to a bygone past of purpose. His works are inspired by these surroundings and influenced by Constructivism, a style born from a sense of community working together in industry toward a united goal, as if the people themselves were functioning parts of a machine. Tomy’s Nan was a product of this era and her famous words are employed in his own work ethic “Just get on with it”.
www.tomyjenkinsart.co.uk @tomyjenkinsart
Get on With It (2024)
Acrylic on canvas
100cm x 50cm
£850
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EDD M JONES
Growing up with cerebral palsy that affected his fine motor control, Edd M Jones was often told he wasn’t good at art or creative pursuits. School offered little chance to practise as lessons were too short, and everything came out a bit messy and rushed.
Fast-forward more than 20 years, and like so much else in his life, Edd has proved people wrong. His style is bold, naïve, expressionistic, and touches on the abstract. He loves the mindfulness of the creative process and the continual learning of new skills.
Edd currently enjoys working in acrylics or oil pastels blended with linseed oil and charcoal. Since 2022, he has been developing his practice through classes with Feral Art School in Hull, exploring a range of mediums and approaches.
www.eddmjones.art
@edd.m.jones.art
Locomotive (2025)
Acrylic on paper
50cm x 40cm (framed)
£150
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PING KELLY
Ping Kelly is a Bradford-based Chinese artist and a graduate of Yunnan Arts University in Kunming, where she also qualified as a teacher. Alongside her abstract oil paintings, she creates watercolours in the traditional style of her native China, occasionally departing from figurative approaches to explore abstract forms using classical brush techniques.
Ping has exhibited widely both in the UK and internationally, including the T:AIM exhibition Stories of Migrant Women in Palermo, Sicily, and at Artbox Gallery in Zurich and Barcelona. At the Digital Exchange in Bradford, she presented her series Broadway, depicting the construction of the city’s newest retail complex.
www.pingkelly.co.uk
@Kelly.Ping
Face (2020)
Oil on canvas
30cm x 40cm
£436
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SIMON LEWIS
Simon Lewis is an illustrator and printmaker based in Leeds, his style is a mix of highly detailed, black and white drawings, colourful screenprints and smaller, more textural etchings.
The artwork is mainly of urban landscapes, images of architecture and streetscenes, and nearly all are of landscapes in Yorkshire. Common themes tend to be streetlife, music, old industry, brutalism, faded grandeur, old buildings in general. As well as being interested in capturing shop fronts, especially the slightly dated or less glamorous ones, with a variety of shop names and signage unique to that area.
Over the last twenty years he has exhibited regularly in cafes, galleries and bars, sold at many art fairs and entered competition/exhibitions across the country, and has been shortlisted for awards.
British Extracting Company
Silo – Hull (2023)
Fineliner drawing
60cm x 60cm
£2,000 (framed)
Victoria Warehouse (2024)
Fineliner drawing
65cm x 40cm
£1,500 (framed)
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PENNIE LORDAN
Pennie Lordan is a contemporary visual artist who has taken a non-traditional route. Born and raised in London, she developed a lifelong passion for art. Leaving school at 16, Pennie worked in animation before returning to study art, design, and education at the University of Hertfordshire, where she achieved a first-class honours degree.
She went on to work as an art specialist and later studied landscape painting at Leith School of Art in Edinburgh for four years. Pennie also attended Turps Banana Art School, further developing her practice. She now exhibits and sells her work locally, nationally, and through her studio gallery in York, UK.
www.pennielordan.com @pennielordan
Runaway (2025)
Oil
103cm x 72cm
£700
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ZOE MAXWELL
Zoe Maxwell is Leeds based artist and studio holder at Assembly House. Her paintings stretch the distance between memory and accuracy. Illusive scenes anchored to a reality, are constructed as past, present and hypothetical futures are intwined across one surface. Her work is independent of time and is so deliberately, as without an orientation viewers are encouraged to create their own associations to the scene. Maxwell incites viewers to question the veracity of recollection in a playful and imaginative way as she constructs confabulations that sit between the possibilities of what was, what could have been and potentially what could be.
@zoemaxwellart
Canal A Jar (2025)
Oil on canvas
60cm x 51 cm
£600
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ELEANOR MULHEARN
Eleanor Mulhearn is a visual artist and storyteller who weaves image, form and movement into multi-disciplinary worlds. Her practice shifts seamlessly between illustration, animation, sculpture and installation. Working in archives, libraries and with the histories and textures of place, Eleanor unearths fragile ecologies and untold narratives. From these remnants, she creates lyrical, narrative-driven works that blur the line between the material, the factual and the mythic, inviting the unseen and half-imagined to take shape. Since 2002, Eleanor has collaborated with artists, institutions, theatre productions and communities both nationally and internationally.
@eleanor_mulhearn
Danu (2025)
Photograph printed on Hannemuhle Giclee Matt
29.7cm x 42cm
£235 (framed)
Guardian (2025)
Photograph printed on Hannemuhle Giclee Matt
29.7cm x 42cm
£235 (framed)
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REBECCA O’HOOLEY
Rebecca O’Hooley is an oil painter whose work explores human relationships, intimacy, gestures and the strangeness of family interactions. A major theme in her practice is the use of landscape as a metaphor for unseen acts of caring.
Rebecca’s work is fundamentally autobiographical, layered with personal narratives and meanings. While rooted in her own experiences, her paintings are not necessarily intended to reveal her story outright; rather, she hopes viewers might connect with one small element in their own way.
@rebecca_ohooley
Algorithm (2025)
Oil on cotton
40cm x 40cm
£295 (Unframed)
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KATE O’NEILL
Kate O’Neill is a Belfast-based artist exploring space through drawing, sculpture and installation. A graduate of the Belfast School of Art, where she specialised in Sculpture and Lens, Kate has exhibited across Northern Ireland as well as in Leeds, Zagreb and Katowice. She was awarded the BCC Creative Bursary Award in 2023.
Kate’s work challenges patriarchal classifications, aiming to dismantle the sexual inequalities embedded within visual language. Her practice asserts that feminised handicrafts are acts of generational and societal resistance. By combining traditional techniques with contemporary materials, she renegotiates the domestic spaces her artworks construct.
@kateonart
Empty Nest (2024)
Graphite on paper
28cm x 36cm
NFS
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CASSY OLIPHANT
Cassy Oliphant is a community artist with nearly 20 years of experience. Primarily a painter, she has been refocusing and redeveloping more of her own art practice in the last 7 years. Through both her painting and textile work, she is exploring themes of Chinese and European folklore to understand her mixed heritage. In particular, she has an interest in how stories mutate as they migrate, and what this has meant for her family as they’ve settled in different places around the world.
www.cassyoliphant.com @cassyoliphant
Bridge of Magpies (2024)
Watercolour and gold ink
42cm x 59.4cm
NFS
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LISA POWER
Lisa makes representations of abandoned places and neglected traditions. Her images often depict the transience of life and nature. This spring she made a series of ink drawings from an abandoned robin’s nest to explore these themes.
@lisa_power_art
The Abondoned Nest I (2025) Ink on paper
48cm x 65cm
£370
The Abondoned Nest II (2025) Ink on paper
48cm x 65cm
£370
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LAURENCE PUSEY
Laurence Pusey grew up in Nigeria, where his father worked as a water engineer. He later taught art for several years before dedicating time to church outreach work. Laurence has since returned to full-time painting, creating bright landscapes that have been described as “pattern with depth.”
@the_artist_laurence_pusey
Dark sky near Paphos (2023) Oil on canvas
70cm x 60cm
£525 (framed)
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DAVID QUESTA
David Questa’s drawings and paintings, whether observed from street level or a more elevated perspective, combine the solid structures of our urban landscape with the busy people who live and work among them. His work captures cities in constant evolution, recording how places grow and change over time.
David spends much time sketching, painting and repainting to create images that stand as records of a place’s life. His paintings invite viewers to contemplate the vastness of the horizon and reflect on what we have collectively built.
questa.jimdofree.com @dquestaartist
London Cityscape (2025) Oil on canvas
85cm x155cm
£8,500
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MARNIAH SKINNER
Surrounded by Yorkshire’s countryside, Murniah Skinner creates abstract landscape paintings that capture the emotional essence of place. Rather than depict scenes realistically, she conveys mood, memory and atmosphere through simplified forms and expressive colours.
As a self-taught artist, Murniah’s intuitive process begins with a feeling or moment in time. She strips away detail, focusing on bold shapes, subtle textures and colour combinations to evoke space, light and emotion. Her work offers a quiet reflection of the natural world, not as it looks, but as it is felt, inviting viewers into a deeply personal and poetic connection with the landscape.
murniahskinnerart.com @murniahskinnerart
Cow and Calf (2025)
Oil on paper
31cm x 25cm
£300
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BEN SNOWDEN
Ben Snowden’s work explores the human form through colour, line and emotion. The figures and natural forms have a deep rooted sensuality and metaphysical nature which is emphasized with vibrant colour and physical expression. The linear aspect of the work helps carve a pathway into the very soul of the subject by merging personal identity with naturalism. Ben uses drawing and painting to create a positive and constructive view of the outside world.
www.bensnowdenartist.com
@bensnowdenartist
Bigger Than The Two of us (2024)
Mixed media on paper
30cm x 40cm
£125 (framed)
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DONGLIN SONG
Donglin Song is a multidisciplinary artist specializing in illustration and sculpture, currently based in Leeds. Her multidisciplinary practice encompasses illustration, mixed media, ceramics, and tattooing, focusing on the expression of subtle emotions and the exploration of human life.
www.donglinsong.com
Stand up comedy (2025)
Acrylic on wood board
12cm x 12cm
2025
£300
Flower nap (2025)
Acrylic on wood board
12cm x 12cm
£300
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ROBIN STONES
Robin Stones is a self-taught artist and curator from the midlands. Formally a digital painter, Robin now expresses himself through mixed media pieces which often consist of found-objects, drawings and photography. Much of Robin’s work comes from his memories of growing up around one of Britain’s economically deprived steel towns, where he works within the contradictions of class struggle, gender deviance and British heritage.
@deadrobinart
Keadby 1 (2025)
Thermal print receipt paper, wooden tabletop, metal tacks
82.5cm x 58.4cm
NFS
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JAMIE STEWARD
Jamie Steward is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in Leeds. Initially known for his graffiti art, he has moved his practice to focus on mural painting and portraiture. Influenced by his graffiti roots, his work exudes a captivating blend of boldness and subtlety.
Employing a restrained palette and deliberate markmaking, Jamie’s art offers a glimpse beneath the surface, reflecting his belief in the importance of capturing depth in portraiture.
His portraits have a sophisticated sensitivity achieved through not only the layers and brushwork, but also the composition of his sitters who have a presence that feels both assertive and also at ease.
With a career spanning decades, Jamie continues to evolve his craft, infusing each piece with his unique perspective and unwavering passion for artistic expression.
@jamiestewardartist
Those cushions (2025) Oil and pencil on board
21cm x 29cm
£350
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BRISBANE TAYLOR
Brisbane Taylor approaches her work with intuition, drawn to the relationship between process and materials and how they interact. She finds joy in exploring colour, the mix of intentional and accidental marks, and the effects of layering and removing, all of which create a sense of mood and atmosphere. Her process can be slow, thoughtful, controlled and medita
tive, or at other times fast, energetic, unchecked and spontaneous, reflecting the complex nature of the whole. Brisbane is based in Leeds and works from her studio at Sunny Bank Mills. She completed her Fine Art degree at Bradford College in 2012.
@brisbanetaylor
Deep Harmony (2023) Oil on paper
64cm x 83cm
£850 (framed)
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SIMON TAYLOR
Simon Taylor is a photorealist artist who graduated in Fine Art Painting from Manchester Metropolitan University in 1994. Since then, he has exhibited both nationally and internationally, with solo exhibitions in London, Manchester, Southport and Huddersfield, and group exhibitions across the UK, Dublin, Milan, Brussels, Utrecht, Zurich and the USA.
His work is held in public and private collections worldwide. He has received a number of prestigious accolades, including The Sefton Open Art Prize in 2006, the Winsor & Newton Painting Award at the Royal Society of British Artists Bicentennial Exhibition at the Mall Galleries in London in 2023, was shortlisted for The Contemporary British Painting Prize in 2024, and received an Honourable Mention at the International FiKVA Award for Painters in 2025.
www.simontaylorpaintings.com @simontaylorpaintings
You Left Me Powerless (2024) Oil and acrylic paint on aluminium 29cm x 64cm
£2,200 (framed)
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MAUREEN UZOH
Maureen Uzoh is a Pop Surrealist artist from Nigeria. She holds a BSc in Sociology from Delta State University and an MA in International Relations from the University of Portsmouth. A self-taught artist, she has developed her practice through years of informal learning and experimentation.
Maureen has exhibited at the African Artist Foundation in Nigeria, Calabar Gallery in New York, and Broadworks x Hive in London, where she also held a solo show.
Her work draws on the vibrant world of Pop Surrealism, blending surreal imagery with contemporary cultural influences. She often reimagines her figures with balloons for heads and bright, vivid bodies. This playful transformation explores ideas of life, resilience, fragility, and the freedom to move wherever the wind may lead.
Through her art, Maureen invites conversations about freedom, identity, and the fleeting beauty of life.
@maureenuzoh
I found a new place called Solitude 1 (2024)
Acrylic, oil paint, photo transfer and embroidery on canvas
£2,000
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VALÉRIE WARTELLE
Valérie Wartelle’s work explores the profound emotional and sensory connections people have with nature. By reimagining the landscape through natural fibres such as wool, silk, and linen, and using the ancient craft of wet felting, she invites viewers on a journey rich in climate, texture, and light.
Originally from France, Valérie came to the UK to study Textile Design. After a career as a knitwear designer, she established her art studio in Halifax, West Yorkshire, in 2014.
Valérie is an award-winning artist and a William Parker QEST (Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust) scholar.
@valeriewartelleart
Tempo (2023)
Wet Felting - Merino wool, silk, linen on silk georgette and muslin cotton base layers
82cm x 78cm
£2,100 (framed)
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JANE WOOD
Jane Wood’s process-led practice centres on the transformation of found objects. The contrast between materials evokes a visual and emotional response that stimulates the creative process. Dirt and decay linger, the objects often incomplete and brittle speak of fragility, loss and the fleeting nature of existence.
Using only the objects gathered to preserve their true form; materials are manipulated through a playful and intuitive process of making. Using hand construction methods, a dialogue between object and artist is formed pushing the boundaries of materials. Unique structures emerge that draw on the intersection of past and present revealing new narratives and untold histories.
www.janelwood.com @janelwood
Porth Cwyfan map (2025)
Beach towel label, paper, plastic, seaweed, synthetic rope and wood mounted on MDF
21cm x 29.7cm
£190
Delineation line (2025)
Plastic, synthetic rope and wood, mounted on MDF
34cm x 38.5cm
£200
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